And it is to that great God whose word we now turn. So please open up your Bibles to the prophet of Habakkuk, as we'll continue our series. Habakkuk 3, starting at verse 1, a prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet upon Shigi-Anot. O Lord, I have heard thy speech and was afraid. O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years, make known. In wrath, remember mercy. God came from Timan, and the Holy One from Mount Paran, Silat. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of His praise. And His brightness was as the light. He had horns coming out of His hand, and there was the hiding of His power. Before Him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at His feet. He stood and measured the earth. He beheld and drove asunder the nations, and the everlasting mountains were scattered. The perpetual hills did bow. His ways are everlasting. I saw the tents of Kushan in affliction, and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble." So far, let us pray. Holy God, we come before you as we again come to your word. May we tremble at your word, Lord. What a mighty word. What an authority. What a gift. What truth, Lord, a bedrock, an anchor, a pillar, the edifice, the foundation of all of our thinking. We thank you that you have given us your word. Lord, we pray for your spirit to understand. I believe in the Holy Spirit. God, bring your word mightily, we pray. In Jesus' name, amen. All right, so as we continue in this series, we have to remember that Habakkuk has challenged God as Judah has been very wicked. God has responded to the challenge and said, I am bringing judgment upon Judah. God is not aloof. He's not distant. He is very much active. He's never caught off guard. That is the God we serve, chapter one, chapter two, Habakkuk's response. stands on a pillar of waiting, what are you gonna say God? And then the rest of chapter two was a vision, where God basically says there's two ways of living, you will live for yourself in the pride of your vanity and be destroyed, or you will live in faith, the just shall live by faith. It's chapter two. And then chapter three begins with this shigianot, which are these ecstatic responses, and really it is the fullness of Habakkuk's mature response to the sovereignty of our God. It is a worshipful prayer, we've seen that. We have seen in the beginning of verses 3 to 5, we looked at it last time, that God is coming. And we looked for the coming of God, the manifestation of God in a very fancy theological word called Theophany. Theos, God. Phaneo, revelation. A God revelation or a God appearance. God is on the march. And we saw, particularly if you look at verse three, that it comes from Timan and from Mount Paran, which we learned was the region of Mount Sinai. This is all about God's sovereign, majestic, all-powerful descent at Mount Sinai, where he birthed Israel, where he covenanted with his people, and where the power of God in decimating the nations was made manifest. God is on the move. And you have to remember, if we look at verse 2, Habakkuk says, But he heard this speech, chapter two, and then he asked, revive thy work. In other words, that manifestation, that coming of God, that theophany, revive it, bring it to life again, continue on as you work your sovereign purposes through redemptive history. And now, as we have looked at verses three to five in the power of God's coming, we're gonna look at the transition here in verse six. I have three points. First of all, sober assessment. Secondly, shaken authority. And thirdly, startled audience. So sober assessment, shaken authority, and startled audience. They're up there for you to see. So notice, first of all, in verse six, we get a change in the flavor because verses three to five is this coming God versus verse six, now he's standing still. and measuring the earth. The words before were action, active verbs, coming, marching, following. And now the action pauses. We should all pause. And the words are now, he stood, he measured, he beheld. And that's the change that's happening. Up until now, God is on the move. Now the Lord arrives. And we are moving then from a heavenly to an earthly focus. And we will see how the earth responds to the appearance and the standing of our God. Notice he is standing and measuring. The idea here is he's visible. He is now seen. The imagery is really that of a great sovereign God towering over the mountain peaks, measuring the earth, asserting his right to rule the nations. And in this vision, Habakkuk remembers that is the God who rules the nations. That is our God. Now look at how it says, in measuring, he is assessing. That's what he's doing. When you measure something, carpenters among us, you know what you're doing. You're assessing how you're going to build something, what you're going to do. You're responding and moving forward in your plan. But God is assessing not just Judah and Israel. He's not just assessing the covenant people here, not just the church. will be assessed. No, the whole world is measured at the coming of the Almighty. It is the people that make up the nations. The people of Canada, the whole world is measured. It's not Canada in abstract. So often we speak of nations with their labels. Back then Babylon and Assyria and Judah. Don't think in those terms. There's people underneath that. Nations are made of people, kings and rulers and the population underneath. Citizens, bankers, electricians, farmers, man, woman, child, you, me. When God comes, he assesses us. He is measuring, as it were, if we are across the line. Do we think that God is not fully aware of any overreach that the wicked might do? Do you honestly think, O sinner, that God does not know what you do? Will God not assign to each his portion, to each his allotment? There's no king, there's no prime minister, there's no president. There's no household that can do anything that God has not first portioned to it. Now kings, people, you may kick at the sovereignty of God, but know this, no gun is fired from one nation to another. No person does anything without God first permitting it. Our God is sovereign. over all things. Now, in scripture, every time theophany happens, all these manifestations of God throughout history, God assesses, that's what it means, when he comes, he's assessing what's happening, and the response is very evident. Think about this. Think of some of these earlier theophanies in the Bible, these earlier appearances. Think of Sodom and Gomorrah, the three angels, as it were, that the angel of the Lord and the two other angels that came to Abraham at the Oaks of Mamre. And what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah? They were judged. The angel of the Lord rained fire on the cities. Think of the Exodus. The angel of the Lord judged Pharaoh and his armies. And God would be known as alone the God of the heavens. Think of Christ's coming, the ultimate theophany, the incarnation of Jesus Christ, where the Son of God bore the judgment, again a judgment, but he bore the judgment on himself. But think of the final theophany that is going to happen when Jesus comes back and the scripture says to judge the living and the dead. What an incredibly strong call theophany is for us to remember, do not flow along with culture. Wherever culture goes, I will go. No, it is a reminder for us to remember that where culture rejects God, we must draw the line. We must stand firm. Let us be courageous because our God is coming. Do not be afraid of what man may do. God is on our side. And so be confident because God is coming. He is assessing. Do not lose sight of His rule and let us be Christ-like because in that He is well pleased. And most of all, when you think of the measuring, the assessment that happens where he stood and he measures, you must remember there is great hope for everyone who is found in the Lord Jesus Christ, who are assessed, righteous, clothed in Him. The very judge then for the Christian has secured forgiveness. The highest king who comes has stooped to cleanse the wretched sinners from sure doom. And so my question to you is, are you found in him? Please regularly remind each other of the day of Jesus' return. Remind your children, remind your friends, your spouse, your parents, your coworker, your neighbor. Remind even your leaders of that great day and speak of Jesus, speak of his robes, speak of his gift of life. Number two, shaken authority. Scripture says, and the everlasting mountains were scattered. He has come, he is assessed, and the mountains scatter. The impact of theophany on the created order is felt. The mountains, which are the edifices of immovability, of permanence, of age. They're as old as it gets. The ancient mountains, the colossal monuments, which always stood resolute as it were. Before God, they become fragile pots that are smashed to pieces. And so it says the perpetual hills did bow, even the strongest opposition. will give way to God Almighty and bow in submission. Why? Why is this? It is because our God is from before the time of the mountains. Our God will outlast the mountains. Our God is eternal and all temporary pillars, everything on this earth, whether the mountains, whether our country, whether the lands, the people, Us, you, me, everybody will bow because God is eternal. And if the mountains bow, who are you and who am I to resist? Theophany declares that even in the most wretched of circumstances where you might be finding yourself, maybe your family's going through a hard time, the things that seem like invincible pillars, mountains, you're like, my situation is hopeless, the crushing arm perhaps of tyranny, perhaps the crippling power of financial ruin, or perhaps severed relationships in your life, perhaps marital conflict, Perhaps a lost child, all these things. Even the corruption of indwelling sin. As Christians, we have no reason to despair. All these things can give way before the Almighty. And you might be thinking, man, I can never change. I've tried so much. Perhaps you've said this to your friend or your spouse or to a fellow believer. You said, I'll always be this way. This is how I was born. Is God limited by our weaknesses? Is He limited by who we are? Oh no, let us all shore up faith in God and the confidence that our God can change everything, even the hardest of hearts, He can break. Those recalcitrant, stubborn, calcified actions and habits we have, our God moves, because he can move the perpetual mountains. It means that my God, our God, believer, he can change and humble me, my heart, and cause it to yield to his ways. I take courage in this verse. When I despair, mountains give way to my King. Surely, He can break my heart. Now, He may not bring you out of the valley. He may not take you out of the heat of your circumstances. He may leave you in the valley. He may put you through more intense heat, but know this. That great God who comes will shepherd his children through. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. And then it goes on later and it says in verse four, yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Why? What does David say next? You probably know it. For thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. That's why, so be assured, be assured, when our Lord returns, even our greatest sorrows here will vaporize, they'll be gone before the presence of the Almighty. So don't let what seems like permanent realities to you overwhelm you. Don't be swayed from obeying God as he calls us to because you can't control certain things. How many times don't we do that, you know? I'll obey God once this is out of the way. Once this insurmountable mountain has been moved, yes, then I will take time to be with God's people. Then I will take time to be in his word. Then I'll take time to pray. Then I'll take time to obey. That's not how God works. That's not what he calls us to. He calls us to start with faith. Who is this God? And therefore, we must obey. Don't be swayed from obeying God because you can't control things. God is not like us. God is not restricted. He's not hampered by anything or anyone. One of the old commentators, Johann Peter Lang, said this, by the word of his mouth, all things were created. before the word they perish. The word like a hammer is a hammer which breaks the rocks. You think about what that means. This scripture, dear people, is the word of the almighty God. Believe it, trust in it. It is this which breaks all mountains. It is by this that all things will be judged, because this is the word of the almighty God. The word was made flesh and came among us, and we beheld his glory, the only glory of the begotten of God, full of grace and truth. Now notice further that the mountains They represent something else in the ancient Near East. You might not think on this tangent very often. It is the place of the gods. The gods of the nations. And so the scattering of the mountains is not just an incidental thing to say God is sovereign, he's powerful, he can move perpetual mountains. It's even more. When mountains shake and scatter and bow, it represents the shaking and the bowing of hostile nations and their gods. Consider how Habakkuk then foreshadows what happens later on another mountain in the New Testament, where God will cause such a cataclysmic shaking of the nations, that the gods of the nations will bow before Him, that Jesus will assert His right and His rule over all nations, and the gospel will go out. When was this? When was he on a mountain? When was there a theophany on a mountain in the New Testament? You might be thinking of it. It was on the Mount of Transfiguration. Matthew 17, one says, and after six days, Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John, his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain. Again, the mountains in ancient cosmology was the place of the gods. We are going up into the heavenlies because it's in the skies, as it were. Now, who was there? Moses and Elijah, the two great men of the Old Testament. And what's interesting, Where did both these men have theophanies? Well, we know Moses at the burning bush, but later, where is the great theophany that Moses witnessed? Mount Sinai. Where did Elijah see God? Mount Horeb, Mount Sinai, same place. 1 Kings 19.8, Exodus 19. Both, when they saw God in those theophanies, saw what? The thundering power of the Almighty. With Moses, Exodus 19.18, it says, the mount quaked greatly, the perpetual mountains. With Elijah, it says, 1 Kings 19.11, a great and a strong wind rent the mountains. Now both these men are here. At the Mount of Transfiguration, we see what else that we see in our text here that we saw in verse four. A bright cloud at the Mount Transfiguration. A bright cloud representing the coming of God. Theophany, the Father, is going to speak. And we hear a powerful voice. It says in Matthew 17, five, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye Him." You see, all theophany ultimately centers on Jesus Christ, seeing Him, knowing Him, hearing Him. Where's the mountain shaking at the Mount of Transfiguration? Where's the mountain getting split? We have Theophany, we have Elijah, we have Moses, all the symbols of Old Testament Theophany. We're not getting the splitting, the earth renting yet. But it gets alluded to, it gets anticipated, because here's the interesting thing. The text says in verse nine of Matthew 17, and as they came down from the mountain, now we get the descent, the coming of the high one, the sun. Jesus charged them saying, tell the vision to no man. Interesting, we have a vision. And then he says this, these remarkable words, until, the son of man be risen again from the dead. In the descent of the now pronounced son of man, the great king that the father has just shown is God himself. will come an event that will shake mountains and kingdoms and nations. This sin-defeating, nation-conquering, gods-of-the-world-defeating, mountain-shaking event happens where? He says it, at Calvary, when he is risen from the dead. Theophany and victory converge at that point in ultimate triumph over everything when Jesus dies. Now, do we see this in the Bible? Am I making this up? No, Matthew 27, 10 chapters later, when Jesus died it says, and the rocks rent, and the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection." Interesting. The rocks rent, but they didn't come out till he rose from the dead, and went into the holy city and appeared unto many. Matthew 27, 51 to 53. You see what's happening? What Habakkuk is alluding to, The ultimate theophany, the declaration of Jesus Christ will shake all nations. The power of new life in Jesus Christ over death, hell, and destruction will burst open as it did on that day. The cold, stony tombs, those things that seem perpetual to us. We think death is final. Jesus blasted that out of the waters. And the centurion, the Gentile that's standing there, he sees what's going on. What does he say? He confesses, this is theophany. He says, now it says in the scriptures, now when the centurion and they that were with him watching Jesus, and then it says in the text, don't miss this, saw the earthquake and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, truly, this was the Son of God. You see, and this cataclysmic theophany, this mountain splitting event, grave rising event will advance because as the gospel is preached throughout the nations, as it has come to Canada, as it has burst apart the seams of paganism, it advances the name of our great God. And so in Acts 17, six, What do they say about this gospel preaching church that has been birthed? It says, and when they found them not, speaking of the apostles, they drew Jesus and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, this pagan city, steeped in idolatry. And what happens? It says, these have turned the world upside down and are come hither also." You see, dear people, as we preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified, mountains are scattering in this gospel announcement. Nations that were once strangleholds, of false gods are being changed. Cannibalism has been crushed. Witchcraft, the worship of sticks and stones is destroyed with the advance of the name of King Jesus as people are being transformed by the gospel. So don't give up hope for Canada. Bring the gospel to your neighbor. Announce his rule and his triumph to your neighbor, your friend. Don't be afraid. Be courageous. What a confident call this is for boldness. What a harbinger for courage. What zeal we should have for our king. And you might be sitting thinking, what of the stubborn heart of my daughter? What about the disregard of my coworker? They just mock and laugh at this. Oh, be faithful. Trust the Lord. If it is his will to save those people, even those hardest of hearts will bow and break. Because where God comes, lives are changed. And the cross of Christ is the patent manifestation of that reality. Have hope. And so Habakkuk simply summarizes it here in the text. Look at the end of verse six. His ways are everlasting. Moses, who was at Mount Sinai, recognized the eternality of this God that manifested himself. Psalm 90, we often read it at New Year's, says this, before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. You see, it is God's everlasting way to not remain silent. But in his appointed time, that he determined before he created all things, he will appear in his heavenly majesty when his people call for help. If we are reminded of His mercy every time the sun rises on a new day, I'll never forget John Piper saying when he would walk to the church and he looked at the sunrise, he did it again, he did it again. What a great mercy that always hit me. When you see the crops receiving the rains, what a mercy that is. If these are the daily mercies of earthly things, then how much fuller, how much richer, how much more majestic are the mercies that are found in Jesus Christ? How much more are they to be desired than sweet gold? His ways, the ways of our Jesus are from everlasting. Now, God, may seem for a season to put salvation history on hold, to hit the pause button as it were. That's what we often think. Now we're in a decline, things are going bad, just gotta protect my family. Wait till God unpauses and hits play again. That's often how we think. The churches are declining, families are breaking down, look what's happening. Remember that though his ways may be hidden from us, God is nonetheless very active. and therefore his marching orders to you and me haven't changed. They're very simple. Proclaim the king. Do your work, your vocation to the glory of God, whether in the home or outside of the home. Invest with expectancy in the next generation. Pursue holiness without which no man shall see God. Battle against your sins. Have you taken up arms against your own sins? Battle ungratefulness, battle anger, impatience, pride. And above all, you people, if you believe in Theophany, if I've said anything that's resonated with you as God's truth, let this resonate, pray, pray. As the Apostle Paul says to the Thessalonians, he says, pray that the word of God may have free course and be glorified, pray. So what's permanent? Certainly not our ways. Man's ways, man's ideas, they shift like the sand. Don't our feelings just ebb and flow like the waves of the sea? The value of the things of earth fluctuate as the stock market. Who wants to put their all into the things of this earth, that when you die, you'll take none of it with you? You can build an empire. It will be gone in a moment. It's nothing. But God, His ways have never changed. It is us that must change, not God. Don't try to change who God is. You can't. Just ask the question, how must I change? Where must I change? Where am I stubborn? Where must I bow to him? Where must I yield? Will you place yourself every day under his command? Will you start your day praying, Lord, use me. I am bowing to you as my sovereign. Will you daily set your compass due to his kingdom? Or do you start days already running? Just hit the ground running, forgetting about God. How often I don't talk to people and I say, how was your devotional life? And it's been better. Can you recognize the line? It's been better. We don't start with God. We put him in as an afterthought. Don't do that. Number three, startled audience. Verse seven, I saw the tents of Kushan in affliction and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. Quite the imagery, hey? Tents in affliction, curtains trembling, shaking with this. We're rounding up the first stanza here of this theophany. The divine march has now concluded. And we have focused on the impact on humanity. And notice the shift, because we're moving from third person, he, God, to first person, I. I saw the tents of Qushan. This is Habakkuk speaking now. Gone are Habakkuk's complaints. Gone are his accusations of God's inconsistency and God's absence. And so the only response we see in Habakkuk is the response we all need if we are melted to scripture and have our hearts molded to scripture. It is personal transformation, and look how it goes, fearful reverence. That is the indicator of a heart that sees God as he is, fearful reverence. If you find yourself still in pride, if you find yourself waking up and still almost demanding of God things, it's because you have not seen him for who he is. Bow before him, be in his word, and meditate on the greatness of God. The prophet sees something else. He sees affliction and trembling, not in the covenant people, but other nations, you see that? Both Kushan and, Median, poetically rhyme here with timan and peran of verse three. You can hear that, right? They both end in the an. This is closing the section, this is bookending this whole stanza. But it's not just rhythmic here. It's not just that they end in "-an", "-mishan", and "-kushan", and stuff. There's something else going on. It's because, remember where we started? Mount Paran and Timan were in the regions of where? Sinai. Guess where these places are? They are also in the same region. We're going full circle back to the Sinaitic Theophany where God manifested his glory. But who are these nations? Who is Midian and Kushan? They are nomadic tribes in the Sinai Peninsula. They are nations which border the Red Sea to the east and to the west. And these nomadic tribes have been watching the approach of Eloah. Remember, we saw that, that this word Eloah is God's response. It's this very unique word used in the text of God. In verse three, Eloah came from Timan. This is the God over against Babylon's God. And these nations are watching this happen as bystanders. That's the interesting thing. They're onlookers and they're trembling. Are you an onlooker here this morning? Are you here this morning, not as a Christian? You've not bowed to the Lord Jesus in faith and yet you're here, you're watching. Have you considered your privileged position? What are you witnessing? Can you go to church? Can you hear the word of the almighty God? Can you see how he has transformed lives and continues to transform lives through his word? And can you stay a mere onlooker? Go home and ask yourself that. There's nothing else you hear. Can I stay an onlooker? when I have heard the word of God. You see, any kingdom, any people, any person that does not bow the knee to Christ has been served notice. Whether you live in China, Turkey, Afghanistan, or Alberta. This world, like Kushan, nomadic tribes, interesting, eh? Tents, pretty fragile. Curtains, it's not so strong. But this world lives with the fear that their little kingdoms they've created, their little stabilities, their little empires, their little aspirations, your little bank account, your home, You're worried, if you're not in Christ, that it will be shaken to pieces. Yes, when God shakes a nation, when, as in 1929, the entire economy collapsed, when governments crumble and nations go to horrific war, when societies tear apart because of the consequences of sin, greed, pride, selfishness, ungratefulness, godlessness, When a life is suddenly taken, you never saw it coming, it startles the onlooker. And even though the onlooker may not acknowledge that God is at work, well, that was coincidence. It's terrible, I don't know what to do. But as Midian and as Kushan, When it gets bad, it will tremble at how close it is. See, that's the interesting thing. Midian and Kushan aren't at the bottom of Africa or something. They're right beside all this happening. It's next door. Now, people may go on with their lives, but I'll tell you this, the closer the judgment, the more you will feel the tremors. When it's a neighbor, when it's a friend, when it's a brother, a parent, a child that dies. Fear can shake all your stability and you will tremble in the affliction, can't you? Have you realized and yielded to the reality The structures of all oppressive kingdoms, like Kushan and Midian, will quake and tremble under the distress when God is at work. Now perhaps you're here and you actually came afraid of death. I've run into those people, and you ought to be if you are outside of Jesus Christ. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. If you've trembled at the prospect of death, it could be five seconds from now, don't kid yourself. Most of the time we shove the thought in the corner, I don't want to talk about it, I don't want to think about it. Well, I'll tell you today, it is a reality. I remember being 19 years old and Pastor Fletcher saying, it is real. Are you here this morning inflicted with the conscious awareness of your sinfulness? So you gotta ask yourself, if everything here falls apart, if the mountains shake before the presence of the Almighty God, if there is no nation that can resist Him, then you ask yourself, is there then any empire that is worth pursuing with my all? Is there any kingdom whose worth will remain forever, so that what I do here will matter forever." Is there any way, is there anyone who knows that truth? Have you asked yourself that question? Is there any refuge that will not collapse when God reveals himself in power? Is there any? Turn with me, please, to Hebrews 12, and we will see the shaking of all things. This is a powerful passage. Hebrews 12, starting at verse 18. For ye, speaking to the Christians, y'all, for ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of the trumpet, and the voice of words, which voice they that heard entreated, that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. This is Mount Sinai. This is when God, in his theophonic power, revealed himself And look what it says in verse 20, for they could not endure that which was commanded. And if so much as a beast touched the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with the dart. And so terrible was the sight that Moses, this is Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake. that's mount sinai and remember this about the book of hebrews it is using the argument called a4 tiori from the lesser to the greater if you've understood sinai with all its shaking with all its fear that even moses is afraid now we're moving to the nth degree, to the highest degree. Look what it says here. But ye are come unto Mount Sion, unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and the church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel. You see, it's Christ, it's his blood that we need. But then it goes on and it says this, see that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, the theophany at Sinai. Much more shall we not escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven. And this word, yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of those things that are made. You see, the entire created order will be shaken, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. What's the answer to the question? Is there a kingdom? Yeah, there's one. Jesus' kingdom, secured in his blood and righteousness such that anyone who comes to him by faith and invests in that kingdom will invest in things that cannot be shaken when Jesus comes again. Place your faith in him, and look what it says. Wherefore, on account of which we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved. Let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably without godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire. It's the answer. It's the same answer the vision has spoken all along. That just shall live by faith. Have faith in Jesus, and he will carry you through into eternity. Do you believe that? Amen. Let's pray. Holy God, we thank you for your precious word. We thank you for the edifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, the foundation of the temple that will never be shaken. We thank you for his robes of righteousness. We thank you for mercy. We thank you, Lord, for your word, and we thank you that our Jesus is coming again. O Lord, hasten that day. Lord, when all things will be made new, when every tear will be wiped from our eyes. O Lord, I pray, save anyone here this morning that has heard these ultimate truths. Lord, may there be a change in their hearts. Lord, only you can do that. We believe in the Holy Spirit. In his name, in Jesus' name, we pray, amen.